On Wednesday, September 7, 2011, Oliver Taylor
<[email protected]> wrote:
Here's what I've got so far:
1. A script attached to the save event (or something) scans the
open document for a regex pattern.
2. This script creates a ctags file from the regex matches in
BBEdit's "Completion Data" folder, and adds some predefined
ones to the list.
Would a ctags file work this way?
Yes, if properly formatted. (See below.) Though as a side note,
I would recommend writing the tags file into the file's parent
directory (or one of its ancestors), rather than into the
central Completion Data folder. It might also be desirable to
munge the ctags file carefully, and only rewrite entries that
pertain to that particular file. (Left as an exercise for the reader.)
Would this be flexible enough to get pretty much anything in a
completion pop-up?
Probably. There's lots of baked-in support for ctags in BBEdit.
Can the ctags file be in simple enough format that a simple ruby
script could generate it?
Absolutely.
Is this a crazy way of getting competitions in prose?
Possibly. But it sounds kind of awesome. (Mostly because you
could use it for *anything*, not just prose.)
If you're going to generate ctags files yourself, you need to
read this: <http://www.bbeditextras.org/wiki/index.php?title=Advanced_ctags_hacking>.
Enjoy,
R.
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